Banshees were once beautiful female Night Elves who were brutally murdered by demons during the fall of
Kalimdor. Their restless spirits were left to wander the world for many ages in silent, tortured
lamentation. Over the years they became jealous of the living and seeded a deep hatred for all life.
Yet when the Lich King, Ner'zhul, became aware of them, he gathered them together and promised them
vengeance upon the living. Ner'zhul gave them terrible voices so that the living would finally hear
their timeless anguish. Thus, the Banshees have pledged themselves to the Undead cause and serve as
valuable warriors in the Scourge. The spectral Banshees can fly and are fond of hammering their enemies
with tortured blasts of sonic force. Their unnerving, unholy screams can be heard from miles away.

Level:

2

Cost:

155
30
2

Unit Type:

Normal

Attack Type:

Magic

Weapon Type:

Missile

Armor Type:

Unarmored

Armor:

0

Ground Attack:

11 avg

*(#) = Stats when fully upgraded

Air Attack:

11 avg

Cooldown:

1.5

Hit Points:

285 (365*)

Health Regeneration:

Blight

Mana:

200 (400*)

Mana Regeneration:

0.667 (1.167*)

Range:

60

Day Sight:

140

Night Sight:

80

Speed:

Average (270)

Build Time:

28

Trained At:

Temple of the Damned

Requirements:

None

Transport Space Usage:

1

Production Hot Key:

B

Banshees are the lesser-known Undead spellcaster. Many Undead players choose to focus on Necromancers but Banshees are also useful to the Undead. The most powerful and scary ability of Banshee's is the Possession spell. Banshees can gain control of units like Knights, Abominations, Tauren, or even powerful spellcasters such as Shaman or Sorceresses. Imagine how cool it is to take over a Human Sorceress then instantly use it to Slow enemy troops. You could also take over an enemy Shaman and Bloodlust your troops. Banshees can also support troops with their Curse ability. They can help protect Heroes
with Anti-Magic Shell.

Banshee Counters
Banshees are very easy to kill. Undead players need to run away from any enemy that gets near them.

Curse (Autocast)
Curses a target enemy unit, causing it to have a 33% chance to miss on an attack.

Anti-Magic Shell Information
This spell absorbs the first 300 points of spell or magic damage dealt to the target, but does not grant
magic immunity. Note that spells absorbed by AMS can still deal secondary effects, such as stun, paralysis,
or mana drain.

This spell is most helpful when cast on Heroes to protect them from other enemy Heroes or spellcasters.
You can also cast on normal units or spellcasters to protect them.

Possession
Stuns a target unit and the Banshee for 4 seconds, during which the Banshee takes extra damage from attacks. She then displaces the soul
of the enemy, giving you permanent control of it, but destroying the caster's body. Possession cannot be used on
flying units, Heroes, or creeps above level 5.

Possession is one of the coolest Undead abilities. Possession can allow you to gain control of units that
you are unable to use or train as an Undead player. Possession is also useful for turning the tide of a battle
because the enemy loses a unit and you gain a unit. This places you far ahead in terms of unit match-ups.
It is especially cool when you steal a useful enemy spellcaster such as a Human Priest, Sorceress, Orc Shaman,
or Orc Witch Doctor and can now use their abilities to help your own troops. You can also steal the workers of
other races and build up their tech tree. You can even take over enemy Creeps such as an Ogre-Mage with Bloodlust.

You can possess the worker units of other races and build up the tech tree. You cannot have more than
3 Heroes for all of the races you control. Once you have built 3 Heroes, additional Heroes cannot be built. You do not
increase your Food Limit by controlling additional races. It is always 100. You can continue to Possess units over
the 100 limit but you might not be able to revive a dead Hero if you are over the limit.

When Possessing troops pick the most important units to steal. Knights, Tauren, Priests, Sorceresses, Kodo Beasts, and so on are important units
to grab. Spellcasters that can cast buffs or heal your units are especially useful.

Possession can be used to get free upgrades much like the Dark Archon's Mind Control in StarCraft. When you possess an
enemy unit, all upgrades/ researches are automatically researched for you free of cost. You can possess
different enemy Undead units to "steal" upgrades.

Possession Counters
Posession is a channeling spell so interrupt it. Read more.
Try to remove the Mana of the Banshees so they don't have enough Mana to cast Possession.